Cerro Chimberí. This 18,000-foot peak at the head of the Río Cochuna in the Nevados Centrales was climbed early in 1955 by Jaime Femenías, Flora Albornoz, Perico Pérez Cherp, Gerardo Türpe, Guillermo Muntaner, Ernesto Gómez Agote, Alfredo Bolsi, a...

On 13 March Robin Wales (16) and a group of six boys and three girls with little or no previous climbing experience spent the day learning basic climbing techniques on practice climbs.In the afternoon, Wales and three other members of the party cl...

North Face, Mount Mitchell West. Like a rocky version of the Piz Badile, the north face of Mount Mitchell’s west peak dominates the spectacular surroundings as one looks across Lonesome Lake, in the heart of the Cirque of the Towers region. In lat...

Nanga Parbat, Various Activity. 1998 will be remembered by many for Nanga Parbat’s (8125m) exceptional generosity. Of the six expeditions, that went after it, five—two Japanese, one Korean, one Australian, one Italian, one Spanish—(all expeditions...

Nanga Parbat, Diamir Face. We established Base Camp at 4200 meters at the foot of the Diamir Face on July 6. We climbed the Kinshofer or Schell route. We placed Camps I and II at 5000 and 6200 meters. Because of bad weather we were unable to set u...

Tilitso, Winter Attempt. J.C. Laverne, Don Adamson, Chris Macknie, Martin Lurtz and I as leader started our trek from Dumre on November 15. From Manang we cut across in four days to the Tilitso Base Camp on the shore of the lake at 5000 meters. Co...

Spanish Climbs in 1974. An expedition from Tarrasa made the following climbs: Urus Este (17,782 feet) on August 4, 1974 by Esteban Cardellach and José Piera and on August 6 by Alberto Altet and Eduardo Ballbe; Ishinca (18,143 feet) on August 11 by...

Bauljuri. On October 1, Lynne Wolfe, co-leader with me, William Porteous, Eric Hagerman, William Boerigter, Gordon Wilson, David Stevens, Chris Hovard and I climbed Bauljuri (5922 meters, 19,429 feet). The peak lies 12 kilometers south of Nanda De...

Peak 10,450±. This peak lies directly northwest of Cleaver Peak and had not been ascended prior to August 11 when Irene Ortenburger and Graham Matthews climbed the enjoyable ridge connecting it with Cleaver Peak. The appearance of this peak from t...

Trango Tower, variation start to Sun Terrace. A Korean team more or less repeated a new start to the Sun Terrace pioneered by another Korean expedition in 2003 (two members of this were on the 2004 trip). This line climbs the lower west face to th...

P 22,270. This peak rises above the Nanda Devi Sanctuary where the south ridge of Devistan joins the ridge between Maiktoli and Mrigthuni. A five-man team from Bombay left Lata in late May for the eight days’ trek to Base Camp with 22 porters and ...

Ama Dablam, Solo Winter Ascent of West Face, 1992. Yasushi Yamanoi’s solo winter ascent of a new route on the west face of Ama Dablam on December 6 and 7, 1992 was mentioned in AAJ, 1993. There are more details and photographs of this remarkable c...

Arizona Mountaineering Club. Membership and enthusiasm continue to grow as the Arizona Mountaineering Club enters its 35th year. The membership, now over 450, spans a wide range of interests and experience levels. In 1998, members trekked, hiked a...

Summary. The problem of the oscillations of the Alaskan glaciers is still far from being adequately solved. More observations at periodic intervals are essential. However, since detailed records are available in the case of some glaciers for over ...

ALDEN FRICK MEGREW 1910–1987Alden Frick Megrew, retired chairman of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado, died at his home in Boulder on September 17, 1987. A life-long mountaineer and 57-year member of the American Alpine Club, ...

Mount Turnweather, Insumisioa. Spanish climbers Miguel Berazaluze, Manu Blaquez, Cristobel Diaz and Raul Melero forged a new route on Mount Turnweather in Auyuttiuq National Park. Insumisioa (VI 6b+ A4) covers 1200 meters in 31 pitches.Brad Jarret...

FALL ON ROCK, INADEQUATE BELAY, ROPE PULLS THROUGH BELAY DEVICE, NO HELMETNorth Carolina, Looking Glass RockOn March 23 around 1:50 p.m., a male climber (26) fell approximately 45 feet on the South Face of Looking Glass Rock. He had led Good Inten...

Khan Tengri and Pik Pobedy. The 3000-meter-high snow-and-ice north face of Khan Tengri is the highest and most severe wall in the Tien Shan. There are seven routes on the face, but all had been climbed by Soviets in teams of at least six using muc...

Tirich Mir. Jerzy Wala led a Polish party to Tirich Mir. Unfortunately they had to abandon the ascent when Jankowski died of a heart attack at over 23,000 feet.Marek Brniak, Klub Wysokogórski, Poland

Colorado Mountain Club. A one-week outing in the Lake City area of Colorado and a two-week outing in the Tetons each attracted a large attendance of 70 persons. The October 1959 issue of Trail and Timberline reports trips to Wildhorse Peak and Ame...